Assignment:
First, select a topic in criminal justice based. Second, do the following four (4) searches for your topic, in this case its prison overcrowding.
In the search box type:
new york times prison overcrowding
wall st journal prison overcrowding
nbc news prison overcrowding
You must select one additional news source, such as Fox, or ABC, or the LA Times, etc. Only newspapers, news magazines, or news websites.
Select three or four reports from the list of news stories and summarize each.
Be creative and find patterns or controversies. What do the reports tell you about prison overcrowding? Are there common themes or are they very diverse? What is the focus, state level, national level or something else? Write a two page report.
Some Ideas on Topics:
• The creation of contemporary prison policy
• Children of the mass incarcerated
• Family disruption after incarceration
• Case law and the demise of the 4th Amendment
• Policing Crime Hot Spots
• Do Boot Camps for Juveniles reduce future crime?
• Saving Children from Crime
• Gun control policy and homicide
• Felon disenfranchisement
• Controlling Police Corruption
• Gang Prevention and Policies
• Prisoner Reentry
• Community policing
• Making Public Space Safer
• Internet Crime policy
• Stop and Frisk and Minorities
• Support for harsh penalties by demographic categories
• Prostitution and prostitution control
• Foster care and juvenile crime
• Solitary Confinement Policy and its effects
• Mental health and drug addiction services in prison
• Solitary Confinement and its effects
• Case study of a miscarriage of justice, such as the Cameron Todd Willingham case
• Employment after Prison
• Intensive Probation vs. Traditional Probation
• Capital Punishment, sentencing, prosecution and bias of various kinds
• Police Failure in Sex Assault Cases
• Why and How corporate thieves avoided prosecution after 2009